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Newspaper
Ackley World
Location
Ackley, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 16, 1907
Page
6
Secretary William H Taft travels the world with campaign duties and global concerns as his son Charlie a curious ten year old keeps him busy with questions and mischief. During a train stop in Oregon Charlie pulled the bell rope signaling the engineer and the train halted after officials discovered his parents were left behind.
A compilation of quirky lines and aphorisms about human nature and behavior. It satirizes talk, mercy, theft, sleep, family, and vanity with short quips and wry observations drawn from a Boston Transcrant style forum.
An election in Sparta Tennessee on June 27 considered issuing 40000 in bonds to own and operate a municipal electric light and waterworks plant. The proposition was defeated by a vote of 95 to 16.
A London World excerpt contrasts Australian Sunday bans on cafés before 11am and no streetcars before 2pm with rules on takeout pastries and hotel dinners in New South Wales. It then recalls Harry Deane Grady and Ned Lysaght from London Law Notes, noting political satire and nicknames for William Ewart Gladstone era figures, ending with a Christmas cartoon quip about the G. O. M and related witticisms.
A New York cabby ferried a refined woman to a Broadway restaurant where she claimed to have lost her purse and sent a boy with her to a Sixth Avenue store. She vanished, leaving the lad in the cab then reappearing, while the driver berated the boy for letting her escape. The restaurant discharged the boy. the driver walked away disgruntled.
A fragmentary note catalogs nicknames and epithets tied to Gladstone, comparing them to legendary terms such as Jove. The piece hints at a humorous dictionary of labels applied across time, reflecting public perception and satire.
In 1857 Mindon Min of Burma commissioned a marble Bible site near Mandalay, the Kutho-daw, with 700 temples each bearing a white marble slab engraved with a vast Pali Buddhist text. The account notes the scripture’s scope and historic dating, and includes a playful aside from Philadelphia Press.
Identified by Tommy as the tale about the boy who ate ribbons, prompting Aunt Tithel’s confusion. Dominy and others search unread pages until a page from Night Before Christmas is found, with Tommy shouting that it matches his description.
The Dutch built an early ironclad and during the 1585 siege of Antwerp the people of the city constructed a large flat bottomed vessel named Ilnis Belli armored with heavy plates. It was never used in battle and fell to the Spaniards when it ran aground, remaining a curiosity in the siege.
A guide explains a practical method to divide a jug by filling until the liquid reaches specific marks at the vessel's ends. This technique yields two nearly equal portions, each representing half a pint, offering tolerable accuracy without guessing.
In Marthaint's Barly Gong Island a seventeenth century note from Nieuw Nederlandt compares a hum bird to a bee. Adrian Van der Dontk recalls a curious small creature whose nature as bird or bee sparks dispute, noting its bee-like hum and seasonal flowering habitat. It cannot be kept alive for long yet is pressed between paper as a gift to friends.
An old lady pleads with a chemist to poison her beloved Fido, tears in her eyes as she accuses him of cruelty and eagerness. The chemist responds with a chilling, perverse pleasure, while the dialogue hints at a fatal scheme and escalating tension.
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